Corset



(No Model.)

E. HAMBUJBR.

CORSET..

Patented Sept. l2, 1882.

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UNITED STATES 4PATENT OFFICE.

EPHRAIM HAMBUJER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,153, dated September 12, 1882,

Application filed May 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM HAMBUJER,

of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State ot Michigan, have invented new and useful opening between the parts which form the back thereof, and the re-enforcement so provided with e elets that in lacing the` main fold of such ie-eni'o'rcement isinterposed between the lacing' and the person ot' the wearer, as more fully hereinafter described.

lFigure l is arear elevation of the two parts forming the back of the corset, the adjacent edges of which are provided with eyelets in the usual manner. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line of any pair of eyelets, showing the reenforcement and method of adjustingthe same. Fig. 3 is an elevation in section, the reverse of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents one halt' ofthe back of a corset, and B the opposite half of the back'thereot', boned in any ofthe preferred styles, and provided with eyelets in their adjacent edges for lacing in the usual manner; but these parts are cut in one piece, thel intervening section forming a re-enforcement, C, which folds together, and the outer edge of each fold is also provided with another series ot' eyelets, through bwhich the lacing passes, as well as through the iirst series ot" eyelets mentioned. lhis lacing is lettered E and is carried throunh both series of eyelets, passing between the back proper and the main fold of the re enforcement.

By this construction the corset may be adjusted to larger or smaller forms without leavlsecure by Letters Patent, is-

A corset wherein the back A B and reenforcement are made in one piece, and such reent'orcement and adjacent edges of the back proper are provided with eyelets adapted to allow the parts to be adjusted by lacing, said lacing passing through both series ot eyelets and in trout or outside the main fold of such rte-enforcement, substantially as described.

E. HA M BUJER.

Witnesses: Y v

H. S. SPRAGUE, F. R. ALDERMAN. 

